Confessions of Zeno. Translated by Beryl de Zoete.

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The copy of author Gladys Huntington, ne Parrish, whose novel Madame Solario, set at Lake Como in 1906, was a minor sensation when published and remains in print compared in its prose style to Henry James and praised by Mary Renault and Paul Bowles, who noted that it had been published anonymouly 'for fear of scandalizing her British in-laws'. In respect of the present book, her marriage to Constant Huntington, who managed the London office of its publisher, Putnam's, is a significant detail; it was in connection with their publication of Svevo that the two entertained James Joyce, hoping to induce the author's friend and supporter to write a Preface to the Putnam edition of Senilit a task in the event undertaken by Joyce's brother Stanislaus.